Improvement in skating-wands



KATE s. Tom).

Improvement in Skating-Wands;

Patented May 21,1872.

Inventor Witnesses:

NICE

PATENT KATE S. TODD, OF YANKTON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATlNG-WANDS.

) Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 126,999, dated May21, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

Specification describin g a Skatin g-Wand, invented by KATE S. TODD, ofYankton, in the county of Yankton and Territory of Dakota.

My invention consists of a light staff or Wand of wood, of gracefulform, three to five feet long, having at each end a ball of gutta-perchaor like substance, two to four inches in diameter; the object of myinvention being to afford aid and assistance to persons in skating or inlearning to skate, the wand being used for the purpose, either as abalancing pole, or for placing or resting one of the balls on the ice togain steadiness. the gutta-percha giving it D a hold on the ice toprevent slipping.

The skating-wand A, B, and O, substantially v as and for the purpose ashereinbefore set forth.

KATE S. TODD. Vitnesses:

EDWARD F. HIGBEE, GEo. B. HOFFMAN.

